Word: traction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned the stage of the Provincetown Playhouse, experimental theatre where Eugene O'Neill's dramas were first presented, into a soap box. Only thinly disguised, San Francisco is called Queen City; Thomas J. Mooney is called Delaney. Discarding dramatic pretense, Precedent is a biased record of how a traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten in a confused battle for an ideal. Here...
Still another subway, parallel to and west of the present units, is being built by the municipal government. Its completion will bring the total trackage of the three systems up to 688 mi., the largest city transportation network in the world. Without its vast, rumbling traction arteries which sell 4,210,000 rides a day, New York would be paralyzed. Hence few New Yorkers were not interested, last week, in a plan proposed by Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the Transit Commission for the city to buy back, for $489,804,000, operating control of all overhead and underground transportation...
Died. Harry Payne Whitney, 58; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Scion of a distinguished Puritan line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust...
Chicago will hear another premiere this season: Camille by Hamilton Forrest, onetime office boy in Samuel Insull's light, power and traction establishment. Camille was scheduled for performance last year, postponed because of insufficient time for rehearsals. Mary Garden will sing the title role. Other operas new to the repertoire and illustrative of Chicago's increased interest in German music will be Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Smetana's Bartered Bride. New sopranos are Lotte Lehmann, famed in Vienna; Emma Redell, a native of Baltimore trained in Europe; Maria Rajdl of Dresden. New Contraltos: Sonia Sharnova...
...Chicago Exchange and Curb, and the Cleveland Exchange, with seven branch offices, with about 9,000 customers and collateral loans estimated at $35,000,000. News of the failure shocked London, where Prince & Whitely did a large arbitrage business, was said to be interested in International Nickel and Brazilian Traction. This, added to the failure of two small London houses, sent prices reeling in that market. It was likewise a blow to Paris. Said La Liberté: "This firm is one of those which recently have been installed in France and have contributed to drain our national savings for the profit...